Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni

ISBN-13: 9781902653242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 274 str.

Gunsberg, Maggie

Opis

This book takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni. The dramatization of femininity and masculinity is explored in conjunction with that of other social categories (class, the family, age). The plays reinforce the patriarchal association of femininity with the body, with spectacle, and with theatricality, while the dramatic backdrop of Venice and carnival provides a unique context for the staging of issues relating to identity, disguise and fashion. In the plays, pretence and theatricality vie with bourgeois Enlightenment values of morality, honesty and respectability to produce dramatic tension with distinct gender implications.

Spis treści

Introduction; I: Honest Women: Morality and Idealized Femininity; II: Off Limits: Femininity and the Stage; III: A Woman's Place: The Angel in the House; IV: Artful Women: Staging Subversion; V: Surface Mobilities: Identity, Disguise and Fashion; VI: Masculinity and Materialism: Money, Sex and Power; VII: Class Acts: The Drama of Difference; VIII: Fear of Fiction: Theatricality, Pretence and Femininity

O autorze

Maggie Gunsberg